Growing or Repeating?
Find the Pattern Rule
Continue the Pattern
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Word Problems
100
Is this a growing or repeating pattern?
Growing Pattern
100
What is the pattern rule?
2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16
Start at 2. Add 2 each time.
100
What are the next three numbers in the pattern:
4, 8, 12, 16 ....
20, 24, 28
100
Skip count by 100's, starting at 100 (8 terms)
100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800
100
Sam wants to make 4 square frames.
How many sticks does he need?
Use a chart or skip counting to help you.
Each time, you need 4 sticks for each square frame.
Let's count by 4s, 4 times because we need 4 squares.
4, 8, 12, 16.
Answer: We need 16 sticks to make 4 square frames.
200
Are these examples of growing or repeating patterns?
Repeating patterns
200
What is the pattern rule?
6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 24, 27, 30
Start at 6. Add 3 each time.
200
What are the next 2 numbers in this pattern?
5, 10, 20, 40 ...
80, 160
200
Skip counting by 200s, starting at 400 (8 terms)
400, 600, 800, 1000, 1200, 1400, 1600, 1800
200
Claire wants to make 7 triangle frames.
How many sticks does she need?
Use a chart or skip counting to help you.
In a triangle, there are 3 sticks.
Let's skip count by 3s, 7 times because we need 7 triangle frames.
3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21
Answer: You need 21 sticks.
300
Which of these patterns is a growing pattern?
AB AB AB AB AB AB AB
The first and last patterns are both growing.
300
Make a growing pattern using the pattern rule below (give the first 5 numbers):
Start at 1. Add 10 each time.
1, 11, 21, 31, 41, 51
300
What is the next number in this pattern?
25, 50, 75, 100...
125
300
Fill in the missing #
178, 180, 182, 184, 186, ____, 200
188
300
Muhammed has 21 sticks. He wants to make 10 triangle frames. Does he have enough sticks?
Each triangle uses 3 sticks. To find out if it's enough, let's skip count backwards by 3s and see how many triangles it will make.
3, 6, 9, 12, 15,18, 21
No, because 21 sticks will only get you 7 triangle frames.
400
What is the difference between a growing and repeating pattern?
Repeating patterns have a core that is shown over and over again.
A growing pattern starts at a certain shape or number and increases or gets bigger.
400
153, 158, 163, 168, 173, 178
Pattern Rule: Start at 153, add 5 each time.
400
Find the mistake in this pattern.
3, 5, 9, 11, 13, 15
We are missing the #7. It should be
3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15
400
Fill in the missing #
625, 650, 675, 700, _____, 750, ____, 800, _____
725, 775, 825
400
Ali wants to make cake. She has 200 M&M candies. Each cake needs about 25 M&Ms. How many cakes can she make with these 200 M&Ms?
Use skip counting.
25, 50, 75, 100, 125, 150, 175, 200.
There are 8 numbers. So that means Ali has enough M&Ms to make 8 cakes.
500
Make your own repeating or growing pattern by drawing shapes or using numbers/letters. Have your classmates guess which type of pattern it is.
Answers will vary.
500
Make a growing pattern using the pattern rule below (give the first 5 numbers):
Start at 7. Add 4 each time.
7, 11, 15, 19, 23
500
Find the mistake in the pattern.
6, 10, 14, 20, 24, 28, 32
The mistake is between 14 and 20 (we are increasing by 4 each time)
6, 10, 14, 18, 22, 26, 30
500
What is the pattern rule?
500, 475, 450, 425, 400, 375, 350, 325, 300.
Pattern Rule: Start at 500, subtract 25 each time.
500
George loves toy air planes. He wants to buy a new airplane toy for each kid in his class Each toy airplane costs 200 cents. If there are 12 kids in his class, how many cents does he need to buy the 12 airplanes?
200, 400, 600, 800, 1000, 1200, 1400, 1600, 1800, 2000, 2200, 2400.
Answer: He needs 2, 400 cents or 24 dollars to buy 12 toy airplanes.